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Rising Temperature Raising Food Prices
Over the last two months, the price of corn has been climbing. On July 19th, it exceeded $8 per bushel for the first time, taking the world into a new food price terrain. With heat and drought still smothering the Corn Belt, we may well see more all-time highs in coming weeks as the extent […]
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Going for the green: Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin could medal in gardening
Despite what you hear about Olympians and their heavy diets, Coughlin eats mostly vegetarian and raises fruits, vegetables, and chickens in her backyard in Lafayette, Calif.
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Meet Keystone XL’s worst enemy: The burying beetle
This gross thing might stop that other gross thing.
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More fracking, more wastewater, more spills
Wastewater injection wells can leak in multiple ways -- injection into the ground being the most risky.
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Panama Canal to add a lane, massively reduce fuel used for shipping
A century after it opened, the Panama Canal is poised to remake cargo transport once again.
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Make delicious popsicles out of booze, goat cheese, and jalapenos
We all loved the Good Humor ice cream truck, but let’s be realistic: Good humor is for children, children with a naive understanding of the world and its woes. What we need, as adults, is an Ennui Truck. And it would sell sophisticated, grown-up frozen treats like blackberry/goat cheese popsicles. In the absence of the […]
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Farmers, beekeepers, brewers: Book takes on New York’s food makers past and present
In her new book, "Eat the City," author Robin Shulman digs in to the Big Apple's food producing past and takes a romp through its lively present.
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San Diego is seeing record numbers of weird black jellyfish
This black jellyfish (which looks a no-more-comforting blood red in this lighting, but black in the open water) can grow to the size of a trash can lid, and its sting packs a serious wallop. Normally these guys are a rare sight around the waters of San Diego; before this decade, they were spotted only […]
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July 2012, the hottest month ever, in five charts
Hope you like the color red.
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Activist group sends Obama a message by carving it into a cornfield
Hot tip from an ex-resident of D.C. to all you activists out there: If you want to get the president’s attention, standing outside the White House with some signs and bullhorns is not going to do it. Everyone does that. You have to get creative. Like these guys, who cut their message into a field […]
